'Letters from Katyń'. Premier of the ninth episode of the film series

In September, when the anniversaries of the Third Reich and the USSR' invasions of Poland are commemorated, we present the ninth episode of the but that's a different story now film series. It shows the fate of one of the thousands of Polish officers, Lieutenant Kazimierz Ściślewski. He was captured by the Soviets in September 1939, and in the spring of April 1940 was killed in Katyń.

The title of the episode is 'Letters from Katyń'. The recalled in it letters are presented at the Museum in Łambinowice in the permanent exhibition 'Polish prisoners-of-war in the USSR'. Lieutenant Kazimierz Sciślewski wrote them in November and December 1939 and in February 1940 to his wife Helena, who was heavily pregnant at the time. He died in the Katyń Forest on 21 or 22 April.

The lieutenant's correspondence, solicitously kept by the family, has survived. His daughter, Urszula Gawor, who took part in the film, and is the president of the 'Rodzina Katyńska' Association in Opole, is not the only person who documents the fate of Kazimierz Ściślewski.

Let us remind you that our film series was prepared thanks to the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. It is produced, according to the concept of Dr. Violetta Rezler-Wasielewska, by Sławomir Mielnik.

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